The Handy Man

Its been a busy day for Aye!!! No, not really busy, but I did get alot done.... I installed sound cards on three computers today and now the place is full of sound!!! The one I put in mine is a Creative Media Sound Blaster 512 that I picked up on Ebay for just a little more than that!!! None of them seem any different than the other, but with that number I had to have it in my computer!!! After that I went down to the basement to work on some backed up plumbing down there. It was the strangest thing, the only thing that would cause it to leak was running water in the kitchen sink. That would cause it to back up through this broken T that used to be for a sink in the bathroom down there. Its in a bitch of a spot or I would have the wall torn out there and replaced it by now. I tried the shower stall down there, and it was draining real slow too, so I figured it was blocked around there. I used this amazingly effective little tool made by GT Waters, called the drain king. You screw it onto the end of a garden hose and shove it down the drain pipe a ways. It blows up like a balloon and lodges in there, then it does a bunch of high powered pulses of water down the pipe. It opened up the shower drain in no time, but the kitchen sink still backed up the pipe and overflowed at the break. I had to go in through the clean out plug outside and shove about 8 feet of hose down it. Turned on the juice and the drain king did its thing. Problem fixed!!! Only thing is the hose and the drain king were filthy with black greasy slime when I pulled them out, I had to spend a while cleaning it off. After all that I got out my pruners and bypass shears and trimmed back growth by the street. My oldest helped cutting stuff back by the driveway. We mostly filled up both of the greenery trash cans.

Back to my computer, and I had offline messages from Granny, calling out for Kabila's Help Desk!!! Apparently Lilly, who's been house and cat sitting for her sister must have had too much fun with us all last night on her sis's comp, cuz when she went to start it up today it went into one of these continuous re-boot loops, and it'd run but the video comes on but wouldn't stay on and all kinds of stuff. It wouldn't boot in safe mode, wouldn't come on in BIOS setup modes, nothing!!! I've seen this kind of thing before, most recently with my son's comp. I also at one point saw the same problem with Granny's comp. I strongly suspect a fucked up boot sector, and of course its not booting far enough that it'll even hit the CD drive so you can attempt to re-install. My suggestion was to format a hard drive (I'm pretty sure Lilly has at least one extra viable hard drive around she could do that with, but naturally it was back at her place) and do a clean install on it. After that, put the original back in as a slave and copy off all the illegal music and movie downloads you've got on it, as well as all your porn. If it works. I give it a 68% chance of working. Kabila's Help Desk, where we're not really that much help!!! If that doesn't work, probably a new motherboard and processor are in order. Of course, at that point its probably a toss up between doing that and just springing for a new comp to replace a four year old one. Likely more money, but a lot less headache!!!
That was Granny last night!!! LMAO!!! We had a time, so we did!!! I also got to reunite with an old friend from back in the Pow Wow days!!! That was very cool. East side was up until 2, and I blogged a bit after that and played some Runescape until I was up after 2 myself!!! Granny was falling asleep on us at the end, I buzzed her and she woke up looking around, "huh??? What what???" It was a lot of fun. I discovered something pretty cool, I can connect my MP3 player to my comp speakers and use it to DJ while I've got my headphones plugged in. The headphones plug in to the USB port, and while they're plugged it it defaults all the sound through them. I did that to play a song or two, and it just kept rolling the hits!!! Oh, and poor Lilly had gone out with her friend to go to a club, and they wouldn't let her in because she was wearing tennis shoes!!! It was good that she had fun with us when she came back from that anyway. Then she has the troubles with her sis's comp and can't even play with us tonight... Hope your weekend had some other bright points that I just haven't heard, girl!!!